ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
When the Bell Telephone System started doing commercials saying, "reach out and touch some," I was disappointed, a little offended and kind of disoriented. Because it was us massage therapists who, much more than the telephone companies, were actually reaching out and...
What is Massage for Seniors?
by Mary Duval I have found that when I tell people I do senior massage, they immediately equate “senior” with “frail old person”. Sometimes people think I'm brave to work with this population and they don't know that they'd feel comfortable doing it. What I have...
Building your toolbox
by Marc Frazier When therapists build their own toolbox, they generally add and refine things they learn in workshops. And, one of the best tools I have found is studying cadavers. The reason is simple - serious cadaver study helps a therapist more fully understand...
Cranial Sacral Therapy helps baby Julie see more and fuss less
by Liz Hoffmaster Julie was a healthy 8lb baby when she was born via C-section. Her head was perfectly round and her face was scrunched up as though she was squinting. A baby delivered vaginally has its first cranial manipulation as it is squeezed through the vaginal...
How Working With Hospice Patients Differs From Other Practices
by Dawn Nelson Relating to the seriously ill and the dying through the intimacy of conscious touch differs in a number of ways, compared to massaging relatively healthy, mobile and active people. Hospice patients may be in shock from receiving a diagnosis of an...
DON’T BE SCARED OF BEAUTY!
Plato identified three absolute values – goodness, truth and beauty. It’s easy to see how massage therapy utilizes truth. We endeavor to be, when possible, evidence-based. We rely on the complex and fascinating truths of anatomy and physiology. And goodness is...
Psychosocial Benefits of Hospice Massage
by Dawn Nelson For the hospice patient, caring, compassionate touch in the form of massage may have benefits more significant and more immediately noticeable than the physical benefits. People who are approaching death from a life-threatening illness are often...
Grad Chronicle – Amy Brock
By Amy Brock, LMT, NCTMB I have been a Massage Therapist for 5 years now and have had a great deal of success from it. Within my five years I have worked consistently full time, have had retention rates of over 70 percent, massaged more than 25 clients a week, and...
Don’t Turn into a Tree!
Are you considering enrolling in massage school. Here's a unique perspective! Whether you know it or not, when you enroll in massage school, you are on a classic Hero’s Journey. If you ever get the chance to read Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, you...
The Lucky 7 on the Bottom of Your Foot
If you will take your left leg up, placing the ankle on your knee and look at the bottom of your foot, there is a number 7 in the sole of your foot, looking back at you! When, long ago, our ancestors descended from the trees, more and more distinctness grew between...